The self-assessment guide and action plan tools helped give focus to these team meetings and ensured that the meetings were action-oriented and identified actual problems.
The second aim will be to examine the utility of the self-assessment guides by beta testing the guides at selected facilities and conducting on-site evaluations.
We propose to develop self-assessment guides that health care organizations can use to help prevent, detect, mitigate, and ameliorate hazards associated with the use of EHRs.
We will use the eight dimensions of this sociotechnical model to develop self-assessment guides to address certain high-risk aspects of the EHR-enabled clinical work system.
We will work with IT professionals, clinicians, and other personnel to compare each item within our self-assessment guides to acknowledged industry-standard best practices.
Step 4: Development of the self-assessment guides We will develop the guides as self-contained chapters or modules, each devoted to one of the 9 different high-risk areas.
The second phase will examine the usefulness of the self-assessment guides by beta testing the guides at selected sites with EHR-enabled systems and by conducting on-site evaluations.
Based upon previous work, current literature, and expert opinion, [ 1, 3, 14, 15, 24- 29] we have identified 9 high-risk areas around which the content of the self-assessment guides will be organized.
Thus, the risks associated with not fully implementing practices identified in the health IT self-assessment guides will vary and should be considered within the context of each individual setting.
The first phase develops self-assessment guides that can be used by clinicians and health care organizations to evaluate certain high-risk components of their EHR-enabled clinical work systems.
Our first aim is to develop self-assessment guides that can be used by health care institutions to evaluate certain high-risk components of their EHR-enabled clinical work systems.
